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APRIL 4, 2017

Three MIT-affiliated research teams will receive about $10M in funding as part of a $35M materials science discovery program launched by the Toyota Research Institute (TRI). Provided over four years, the support to MIT researchers will be primarily directed at scientific discoveries and advancing energy storage. Earlier post.)

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OCTOBER 21, 2010

has acquired a carbon nanotube technology that can significantly improve the power capability of lithium-ion batteries, through an exclusive technology licensing agreement with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). —MIT Professor Yang Shao-Horn. Contour Energy Systems, Inc. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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MARCH 17, 2021

So far, the current densities that have been achieved in experimental solid-state batteries have been far short of what would be needed for a practical commercial rechargeable battery. We think we can translate this approach to really any solid-state lithium-ion battery. Eschler, C.M., Fincher, C.D.

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JANUARY 31, 2015

SolidEnergy , an MIT spin-out commercializing solid electrolyte technology enabling the use of lithium metal anodes for high energy density rechargeable batteries ( earlier post ), says that in 2016, it and its battery manufacturing partners will release a 2 Ah commercial battery for the smartphone and wearable market.

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AUGUST 16, 2013

MIT researchers have engineered a new rechargeable, membrane-less hydrogen bromine laminar flow battery with high power density. Laminar flow batteries—which rely on diffusion to separate reactants—eliminate the need for an ion-exchange membrane. Credit: Braff et al. Click to enlarge. —Braff et al.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

A team of MIT undergraduate students has invented a shock absorber that harnesses energy from small bumps in the road, generating electricity while it smoothes the ride more effectively than conventional shocks. GenShock prototype. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). to develop and commercialize the product they call GenShock.

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OCTOBER 22, 2013

A123 Venture Technologies, a Massachusetts-based technology incubator, will collaborate with MIT startup SolidEnergy. This strategic partnership leverages SolidEnergy’s solid electrolyte technology which enables the safe and practical use of lithium metal anodes for high energy density batteries in a wide range of applications.

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APRIL 27, 2014

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a safe, extended cycling lithium-metal electrode for rechargeable Li-ion batteries by entrapping lithium metal within a porous graphene network (Li-PGN). They then looked at the interaction of elemental lithium with such defect sites in the graphene.

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MAY 26, 2011

Scheme of the semi-solid flow cell (SSFC) system using flowing lithium-ion cathode and anode suspensions. Even the highest energy density lithium ion cells currently available, e.g., 2.8–2.9 2011), Semi-Solid Lithium Rechargeable Flow Battery. Source: Duduta et al. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The American Ceramics Society awarded A123Systems the Corporate Technical Achievement Award for developing breakthrough ceramics that enable new technologies such as stable, high-power, rechargeable batteries that are safer and more powerful than earlier lithium-ion rechargeable varieties. A123Systems launched in 2005. (A

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

The funds will be used to develop novel membranes and lithium-metal anodes for the next generation of high-energy-density, low-cost batteries. 24M’s core technology is semi-solid lithium-ion, a new class of lithium-ion batteries that will be initially deployed in stationary storage. Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 31, 2023

EnerVenue If you don’t discharge and then recharge them all the way, lithium-ion batteries can last for thousands of charge-discharge cycles. Here’s one of the gripes: It takes 60 to 80 kilowatt hours of electricity to produce a 1-kWh lithium-ion battery. meters long, weigh 62 kilograms, and store 3 kilowatt-hours.

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APRIL 5, 2024

—James Pikul, University of Wisconsin, Madison Djenizian is part of a group that published a paper in February in the journal Advanced Materials Technologies on a stretchable lithium-ion wire battery. The battery is not rechargeable, and its applications include medical patches and hearing aids.

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APRIL 4, 2024

Photo: Alsym Energy Boston-based Alsym Energy, which is developing a nonflammable rechargeable battery that’s cobalt and lithium-free, has announced a $78 million funding round. Alsym says its batteries can be used for any discharge duration from 4 to 110 hours and can recharge in as few as four hours.

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JUNE 13, 2011

Last week’s 4 th Symposium on Energy Storage: Beyond Lithium-ion , hosted by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), brought together researchers tackling the “Beyond Li-ion” problem by working on a number of different platforms (e.g., Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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MARCH 12, 2009

Researchers at MIT have developed a lithium iron phosphate electrode material that achieves ultra-high discharge rates comparable to those of supercapacitors, while maintaining the high energy density characteristic of lithium-ion batteries. Glassy lithium phosphates are known to be good, stable Li + conductors.

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AUGUST 5, 2015

A team of researchers at MIT and Tsinghua University has developed a high-rate, high-capacity and long-lived anode for Li-ion batteries comprising a yolk-shell nanocomposite of aluminum core (30 nm in diameter) and TiO 2 shell (~3 nm in thickness), with a tunable interspace (Al@TiO 2 , or ATO). Earlier post.). —Li et al.

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JANUARY 20, 2016

However, Mg-ion batteries have suffered from a number of limitations, among them being anode/electrolyte incompatibility. Pellion says that its next-generation technology enables novel, high-energy-density batteries delivering fully twice the energy of lithium-ion cells in a comparable weight and volume.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Gerbrand Ceder (now at UC Berkeley/Lawrence Berkeley Lab as of 1 July, formerly at MIT) have developed a new class of high capacity cation-disordered oxides—lithium-excess nickel titanium molybdenum oxides (Li-Ni-Ti-Mo, or LNTMO)—for Li-ion cathode materials which deliver capacities up to 250 mAh/g. —Lee et al.

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MARCH 24, 2021

The cost of the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries used for phones, laptops, and cars has fallen significantly over the last three decades, and has been a major driver of the rapid growth of those technologies. Lithium-ion cell prices. Ziegler and Trancik.

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JUNE 22, 2015

Stealth-mode battery start-up 24M has introduced its new semi-solid lithium-ion cell. Together, our inventions achieve what lithium-ion has yet to do—meet the ultra-low cost targets of the grid and transportation industries. The lithium-ion battery is a brilliant, enabling technology, but its economics are flawed.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Wh per US dollar for lithium ion batteries. Compared to rechargeable batteries and supercapacitors, the proprietary membrane allows for very simple device configuration and low fabrication cost. This translates to an energy cost of 10-20 Wh per US dollar for the membrane, as compared to just 2.5 —Xian Ning Xie.

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AUGUST 25, 2022

An international team of researchers led by Quanguan Pang at Peking University and Donald Sadoway at MIT reports a bidirectional, rapidly charging aluminum–chalcogen battery operating with a molten-salt electrolyte composed of NaCl–KCl–AlCl 3. —Pang et al. —Pang et al. —Donald Sadoway.

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APRIL 30, 2010

The aerobic microbe has been engineered at MIT and is capable of converting a variety of organic compounds into oil, from which biodiesel may be produced. Li-Air Battery : Development Of Ultra-high Specific Energy Rechargeable Lithium/Air Batteries Based On Protected Lithium Metal Electrodes. Harvard, Univ. of Delaware).

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APRIL 12, 2015

Researchers at the Skoltech Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage (CEES), a partnership between the MIT Materials Processing Center and Lomonosov Moscow State University, are focusing on the development of higher capacity batteries. Advanced Li-ion and multivalent ion batteries. Chiang, MIT colleague W.

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APRIL 21, 2009

The discovery came when MIT researchers Byoungwoo Kang and Gerbrand Ceder found out how to get a common lithium compound to release and take up lithium ions in a matter of seconds. 3 David Herron said on March 16th, 2009 at 12:31 am Fast recharge will require huge power levels. Like this post?

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JULY 13, 2017

Researchers at MIT, and their colleagues in Germany, suggest that smooth surfaces on a solid electrolyte may prevent harmful Li infiltration, thereby improving the performance of solid-state Li-ion batteries. Craig Carter, the POSCO Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT.

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MARCH 23, 2016

MIT professor Donald Sadoway and his team have demonstrated a long-cycle-life calcium-metal-based liquid-metal rechargeable battery for grid-scale energy storage, overcoming the problems that have precluded the use of the element: its high melting temperature, high reactivity and unfavorably high solubility in molten salts.

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APRIL 2, 2010

A team of researchers at MIT led by Professor Yang Shao-Horn have found that gold-carbon (Au/C) and platinum-carbon (Pt/C) catalysts have a strong influence on the charge and discharge voltages of rechargeable lithium-air (Li-O 2 ) batteries, and thus enable a higher efficiency than simple carbon electrodes in these batteries.

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MARCH 11, 2023

Photo-illustration: Max-o-matic; photo source: M&N/Alamy Some operators of early direct-current power plants at the turn of the 20th century solved the problem of uneven power output from their generators by employing large banks of rechargeable lead-acid batteries, which served as a kind of buffer to balance the flow of electrons.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2014

However, even “ Increasing the specific energy of lithium-ion cells to as much as 380 Wh/l will reduce driving range drawbacks.”. All-solid-state Li-ion batteries have suffered from limited power densities until recently. Researchers are working in three main areas: Developing better lithium-ion conducting solid electrolytes.

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MAY 13, 2013

Researchers at MIT, the University of Pittsburgh, and Sandia National Laboratories have used transmission electron microscope (TEM) imaging to observe the electrochemical oxidation of Li 2 O 2 , providing insights into the rate-limiting processes that govern charge in Li–O 2 cells. Mao, suggested. Oxidation of Li 2 O particles. (a)

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OCTOBER 23, 2008

MIT spinoff A123 was a personal favorite, also Germany’s Continental was in the running, but it was LG Chem subsidiary and Detroit based Compact Power, Inc. a Detroit-based subsidiary of LG Chem, to be supplier of the advanced lithium-ion batteries for the Volt (right) , which is scheduled to begin production in late 2010.

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APRIL 21, 2009

Volvo Ford-owned company exploring PHEVs "ReCharge" flex-fuel series 60-mile concept PHEV w/wheel motors. announced a partnership with utility Southern California Edison to test a fleet of rechargeable electric vehicles and said it expected to sell such plug-in hybrids within the next decade if battery technology keeps pace.

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APRIL 16, 2009

The four-door sedan will deliver 40 miles on a charge; a small gasoline engine will recharge the battery as it approaches depletion, extending its range by as much as 200 miles. One wonders if the recent headway at MIT in building lithium ion cells using ?virus? The car is expected to cost around $40,000.

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